Wow! This was fast. And it works too! Warmest Regards, Lev Selector
-----Original Message----- From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:33 PM To: Selector, Lev Y Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: removing extra empty lines On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:28:19PM -0400, Selector, Lev Y wrote: > Folks, > > I have a long file which has many "empty" lines > with nothing but may be spaces or tabs (/^\s*$/). > > These lines tend to group together creating chunks > of empty vertical space on the printout. > > I want to reduce the number of empty lines > in such chunks to 1 line. > > What would be an elegant way to do this? perl -p0377i -e 's/^\s*$//gm' Ronald
